One characteristic of all Quarterman families seems to be that they
like books: reading them and writing them.
We have here a list of
basic books about Quartermans.
We include material about the book we wrote:
Quarterman Family
of
Liberty County, Georgia
and
Relatives.
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There are at least four major Quarterman families in America:
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The Liberty County, Georgia Quartermans,
who arrived there in 1752,
to South Carolina in 1695, and probably before that from Oxfordshire.
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The African-American Quartermans, who are centered on the southeast
U.S. coast from Georgia to New York.
They took their name from the first group above.
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The
Camden County,
Georgia Quartermans, whose ancestors came from Oxfordshire
in the middle of the nineteenth century.
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The Pennsylvania and Indiana
Quartermans, origin possibly Ireland.
There are
many more Quarterman, Quatremaine, etc. families.
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The Quatremaines are presumed to be of Norman origin and to have
arrived in England about a century after William the Conqueror.
Their center in England is
Oxfordshire.
In the United States, the main center of Quarterman history is
Liberty County, Georgia, and more specifically Midway Church.
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